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0 pointsxslvrxslwt3y ago0 comments

But they should "care" about public backslash, maybe if some tech YouTubers are willing to cover this topic..?

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gkbrk3y ago· 1 in thread

People don't buy Xiaomi because of their fancy tech, they buy it because it's cheap. Tech YouTuber telling people they steal that tech to make it cheap won't make people stop buying their cheap phones.

You can ask your government to take action for this IP violation by taxing those brands more, or banning them until they stop violating licenses. I'm sure they'll start caring more after that.

xslvrxslwtOP3y ago

Actually, if you look at the custom ROM community, only my device had more than 50K official downloads from just the ArrowOS ROM 's website, and this device is actually more popular on the unofficial side so there's at least x3 more people on lineage and others ROMs - that's not a small amount of people (using arrowos as an example because they have telemetry)

So, me and many others are very angry about this and this is our first and last time getting a Xiaomi device

i.e. only the telegram update channels have 25k-65k subscribers per a single xiaomi device, let alone the whole XDA community

follower3y ago

At least one tech YouTuber, Naomi Wu (a.k.a. RealSexyCyborg) has in fact already covered this topic and successfully got a company to comply with their GPL obligations.

Her comment[0] at the time directed at other Tech YouTubers was:

> YouTubers- you CAN make a difference by making GPL compliance

> a condition of your product reviews. I'm happy to mediate in

> Chinese if there is any miscommunication. GPL compliance means better,

> more functional, more innovative phones for everyone.

[0] https://twitter.com/RealSexyCyborg/status/143734308046669414...

And this wasn't the first time she was involved in the resolution of such situations:

* "Creality GPL Update - Naomi Wu Released CR-10S Marlin Source Code" Joel Telling (a.k.a 3D Printing Nerd) <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pODH6FR4nU8>

Content Advisory: Joel chooses not to wear a suit & tie to present his videos.

cududa3y ago

You think China is going to change their national policies and business practices because some Western YouTubers make videos about it? Unless you're like 14, I'm in absolute awe that any adult with even the most minimal understanding of geopolitics would think this is a solution.

avereveard3y ago

People don't care that apple resolved iPhone worker suicides with jumpers nets, I don't think they will care of some weird, obscure licensing topic

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